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Wheeler launches two free seminars, tickets available for various events

We are a just a week away from the 40th rendition of the Food & Wine Classic. The time of year when, to borrow a phrase from Lloyd, we are “a place where the beer flows like wine, where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I’m talking about a little place called Aspen.” If you know it, you know it.

Few events on the philanthropic calendar have as enlightening and compatible premise as that being offered at a fundraiser the night before the Food & Wine Classic to benefit our own Aspen Public Radio. Winemaking is Freedom is a special wine tasting event and dinner which will welcome noted Washington DC restaurateur Rose Previte and her husband, David Greene, formerly of NPR's

Taking place Thursday, June 15, on the eve of the iconic Food & Wine Classic, this special fundraiser in support of Aspen Public Radio will celebrate the marriage of winemaking and storytelling, with a Wine Tasting from 4-6pm followed by an exclusive, limited-seat Dinner at 7pm.

The Aspen Institute’s Hurst Community Initiative lecture series in partnership with libraries and chambers of commerce throughout the Roaring Fork and Colorado River valleys continues at 5 p.m. Wednesday with a look at workforce sustainability…